Genres & Styles - Rap & Hip Hop
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Bmf: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family
$20.00 Add to cartIn the early 1990s, Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory and his brother, Terry “Southwest T,” rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the largest cocaine empires in American history: the Black Maf
- Author: Shalhoup, Mara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 18, 2011
- ISBN10: 0312674155
- Language: English
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Dancing with the Devil, how Puff burned the bad boys of Hip-Hop: Dancing with the Devil
$25.00 Add to cartHe has recorded with the biggest stars in the music business. He wrote many of the hits that made Sean “Puffy” Combs one of the richest men alive. On the surface, the multi-million dollar empire that … [more below]
- Author: Curry, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: February 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0615276504
- Language: English
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Billionaire Branding: How Hip Hop’s Cash Kings Built Their Empires
$18.73 Add to cartPersonal Branding is the “art of standing out”. Developing your personal brand is the process of discovering who you are, who you want to be, and who people perceive you to be. Learn 33 Branding Secre
- Author: Harris, T. Brookshire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: February 25, 2016
- ISBN10: 0997268700
- Language: English
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How to Rap 2: Advanced Flow & Delivery Techniques
$19.99 Add to cartThis sequel to How to Rap breaks down and examines techniques that have not previously been explained–such as triplets, flams, lazy tails, and breaking rhyme patterns. Based on interviews with hip-ho… [more below]
- Author: Edwards, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1613744013
- Language: English
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How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC
$16.99 Add to cartClipse, Cypress Hill, Nelly, Public Enemy, Remy Ma, Schoolly D, A Tribe Called Quest, will.i.am-these are just some of the acclaimed artists offering tips and advice in this compelling how-to. Deliver… [more below]
- Author: Edwards, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1556528167
- Language: English
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Angry Blonde
$19.99$15.99 Add to cartToday’s hottest rapper’ the enigmatic Eminem’ delivers a provocative collection of his uncensored lyrics, complete with personal commentary on each controversial song.
Angry Blonde is the only offici
- Author: Eminem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0060934514
- Language: English
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The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about When We Talk about Hip Hop–And Why It Matters
$26.90 Add to cartHow hip hop shapes our conversations about race — and how race influences our consideration of hip hop
Hip hop is a distinctive form of black art in America-from Tupac to the Pulitzer Prize-winning- Author: Rose, Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0465008976
- Language: English
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Original Gangstas: Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
$21.99 Add to cart“Raw, authoritative, and unflinching … An elaborately detailed, darkly surprising, definitive history of the LA gangsta rap era.” — Kirkus, starred review
A monumental, revealing narrative history- Author: Westhoff, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 16, 2017
- ISBN10: 0316344850
- Language: English
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Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic
$19.99 Add to cartAt the age of nineteen, Nasir “Nas” Jones began recording tracks for his debut album — and changed the music world forever. Released in 1994, Illmatic was hailed as an instant masterpiece and has pro
- Author: Dyson, Michael Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 0465002110
- Language: English
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The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song from Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
$25.99 Add to cartFrom Sugarhill Gang to NWA to Biggie to Kanye, The Rap Year Book takes readers on a journey that begins in 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap became recognized as part of the cultural and musical… [more below]
- Author: Serrano, Shea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1419718185
- Language: English
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In My Remaining Years
$18.99 Add to cartA collection of morbidly funny, intensely personal essays by cult fave and multi-hyphenate artist Jean Grae
In My Remaining Years, by creative juggernaut Jean Grae, debunks the myth that coming-of-age- Author: Grae, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1250857546
- Language: English
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Remember the Times: A Memoir
$29.00 Add to cartGrammy Award–winning R&B and hip-hop legend Teddy Riley recounts his journey from growing up in the projects in Harlem to inventing the genre New Jack Swing, selling out shows at Madison Square Garden… [more below]
- Author: Riley, Teddy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1668056453
- Language: English
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Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World de la Soul Made
$29.00 Add to cartFor fans of Dilla Time and The Chronicles of DOOM, a culturally connected celebration of the groundbreaking hip-hop group De La Soul, and how they changed the look, sound, and feel of Black America.
M- Author: McCoy, Austin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1668047942
- Language: English
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Mothership Connected: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic
$34.95 Add to cartAn oral history with the women of Parliament-Funkadelic, from forming the band to landing the mothership.
Parliament-Funkadelic is perhaps the greatest funk band ever assembled. Yet at the time of the
- Series: American Music
- Author: Neblett, Seth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1477332677
- Language: English
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Lyrical Dharma: Hip-Hop as Mindfulness
$21.95 Add to cart“It is hard to express how important I feel this book is.”
A powerful and poetic illustrated meditation on hip-hop and mindfulness “I want to create music and
–Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple- Author: Born I
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0984627162
- Language: English
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Harlem World: How Hip Hop’s Super Showdown Changed Music Forever
$26.95 Read moreA thrilling narrative history of how one rap battle in New York transformed American culture forever.
July 3, 1981, was a pivotal night for the future of America’s newest art form: hip hop. In New York
- Author: Mael, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 142144688X
- Language: English
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Independent as F***: Underground Hip-Hop from 1995-2005
$20.00 Add to cartFor a glorious ten-year period from 1995 to 2005, hip-hop music received a much-needed shot in the arm from a generation of determined and wildly creative rappers and producers. They rallied against t… [more below]
- Author: Pedroche, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1913231879
- Language: English
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Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story
$29.99 Read moreA modern epic about the most consequential music culture today, Atlanta rap–a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscar… [more below]
- Author: Coscarelli, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 198210788X
- Language: English
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Life Lessons from Hip-Hop: 50 Reflections on Creativity, Motivation and Wellbeing
$21.99 Read moreTake control of your narrative and become the best version of yourself with 50 Hip-Hop inspired lessons that will motivate a new generation.
Grant Brydon has interviewed some of the biggest names in h- Author: Brydon, Grant
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0744061199
- Language: English
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Kill Your Masters: Run the Jewels and the World That Made Them
$28.95 Add to cartAll the unwritten rules of rap say it doesn’t happen like this. Yet Killer Mike, a Black man from Atlanta, Georgia, and El-P, a white man from Brooklyn, New York, have transformed what should have bee
- Series: Music of the American South
- Author: Doelen, Jaap Van Der
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820367826
- Language: English
